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Folder Size solves a big Windows annoyance
Y'know... with all of the similarities between Windows XP and Mac OS, it amazes me that Microsoft has never figured out that it might be helpful to be able to see the size of a folder in Windows Explorer. Sure, you can right click on the folder and get its properties but that's more clicks than I care to make and comparing the size of two folders is... well, it's annoying.Enter Folder Size, a nice bit of open source goodness that simply adds a "Folder Size" column to your Windows Explorer windows. One less annoyance.
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Subscribe to commentsJordan RunningAug 22nd 2005 12:54PM
Wow! This is fantastic.
Jason ClarkeAug 22nd 2005 1:34PM
Good post Marc. I've been using this for so long that I forgot it wasn't built in to Windows.
Torben Busk S?senAug 22nd 2005 3:39PM
What a great utility. It's fast, and blends into the explorer seamlessly.
Nicole SimonAug 22nd 2005 4:50PM
Nice one :) Could you dig out a "add folder by button" tool also please?
Marc OrchantAug 22nd 2005 5:44PM
Nicole: I blogged about this some time ago on The Office Weblog. Here's a link ot my post about two great tools for fixing this annoyance:
http://office.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000280027420/
tevetorbesAug 22nd 2005 7:54PM
You might check out Shell Extension City - http://www.shellcity.net/ - has a boatload of different things to download to tweak your windows shell.
Marc OrchantAug 22nd 2005 10:00PM
Yes - Shell Extension City and its sister site Daily Rotation are excellent resources.
Scott VillarosaAug 23rd 2005 7:41AM
I found the original on SEC about a year ago. This is a handy tweak though.
KeithAug 24th 2005 2:50AM
Very handy, though it sorts the values alphabetically, rather than numerically, at least on my Win2K system. (Tried emailing the author, but the mail bounced.)
I've been using Berger Laurent's Folder Size Shell Extension for many years (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download.asp?fid=15304&fileidx=1) -- this is an excellent complement to that (will be even better if the sorting can be made to work -- hopefully it's not just me).
Thanks!
StrunarAug 24th 2005 8:56AM
I seems like anybody has forgot another XP funcionality: when you hover over a folder and keep cursor there, you will get a buble-box with information like "Size: XXX MB".
Of course this takes more time on complicated folders structures (like Windows :-)). Therefore on such folders you can get Size: more than 7,5 GB...
Brian PipaAug 26th 2005 1:17PM
You really should be using xplorer2 instead of Windows Explorer - that functionality is built-in.
http://myvogonpoetry.com/wp/?p=39
brian